Xu Shiji served as Yang Rui's bodyguard. Basically, he had to follow Yang Rui wherever he went. He was completely a waiter.
But he was very, very happy, because the person he was serving was most likely the future prince, not to mention just being a guard, he could even carry a urinal.
Serving people means doing everything you can. Don't laugh at others who carry the urinal. They carry the urinal for the leader. When they face you, they urinate on top of your head.
If a person wants to be successful in this life, groveling is a necessary skill. If you lick the right person and lick them well, you will get the opportunity to be licked by others.
Again, you can't be a grandson without being a grandson.
Li Shimin was about to leave, so Yang Rui and Changsun Wuji had been running to Tang Guogong's mansion these days. Even Yang Jin came after hearing the news. After all, he had a good relationship with Shimin.
It's August now, and it will take two months at the fastest to go to Jiangdu. After spending the New Year in Jiangdu, it's almost time to become a princess.
In fact, the reason why Yang Guang agreed so simply was because he had asked his daughter that Yang Qi was indeed interested in Shimin, so it's easy to say, my daughter, isn't it up to you to choose among the sons of the world?
As for whether Li Shimin is happy or not, almost no one cares. If he dares to say he is not happy, Li Yuan can break his legs.
"So, Yuanji and Zhiyun are also going to follow?" Yang Jin asked Shimin while eating fresh plums.
In the Sui Dynasty, there were five favorite fruits for nobles, with green plums as the first, ling pears as the second, cherries as the third, sweet berries as the fourth, and sweet apples as the fifth. Plums were regarded as the king of fruits in the Sui and Tang dynasties. Ripe, now is the season for eating plums.
Among them, ganzi is an orange and sycamore is a grape.
The plum that Yang Rui ate was not an ordinary plum. It was the Jiaqing Green Plum produced in Jiaqingfang, Dongdu, known as the King of Plums.
Because the output of this stuff is very rare, most people can't eat it.
Yang Ming doesn't like to eat plums, because there is a saying: Peach is full, apricots hurt people, and dead people are buried under plum trees.
Peaches are rich in nutrients and can make you full. Apricots are hot in nature and easy to get angry. Plums are cool in nature. Eating too much cold food will damage the spleen, so there is such a saying.
Yang Jin has liked to eat plums since he was a child. He ate them for food. Yang Ming has taught him many times, so now he only dares to eat them behind his father's back.
"Eat less, my father has taught you so many times, but you still can't change," Yang Rui said to his younger brother.
Yang Jin chuckled: "If you don't tell me, I don't tell you, and everyone doesn't tell me, how will my father know?"
"That's right, that's right, we won't tell you. Your Highness, feel free to eat," Mrs. Dou said with a smile: "Our family is going to Jiangdu this time. We will only leave a side room in the house to look after the door. Tang Gong and Jiancheng will not be there for the time being." Let’s go, we have to wait until after the New Year.”
Yang Jin sighed: "Then we will see Shimin again, I don't know how long it will take."
Li Shimin also felt sad. He had only a few friends, and he would definitely be reluctant to go to Jiangdu with his family. How great would it be if they got married in the capital? There are many friends and it’s fun.
Wei Gui was also on the side today and smiled and said: "I often hear my family say that the mountains and rivers in the south of the Yangtze River are warm and elegant, and the small bridges and flowing water are misty and rainy. I would like to go, but I don't have the chance."
Many of their families are talented people who have traveled all over the country and know Jiangnan very well.
When Yang Rui heard this, he frowned and said, "If I ask my father, queen, mother and concubines to let me go to Jiangdu, do you think they will agree?"
"No," everyone shook their heads at the same time.
Changsun Wuji said: "You are the direct eldest son. From the capital to Jiangdu, it is more than a thousand miles away. The prince will never agree."
"It's good to be able to get you out of Kyoto, but you still want to go to Guanzhong?" Yang Jin smiled slyly at the side.
Wei Gui knew in his heart that Yang Rui's words were caused by him. He was overjoyed and hurriedly said:
"We are still young. We will have many opportunities in the future. We have to take a boat to go to the river. But now I can't stand the bumps of the boat. I will vomit."
Yang Rui nodded when he heard this: "When we are older in the future, I will take you there."
Two days later, Yang Rui and the others sent Shimin to Chang'an Yi before reluctantly waving goodbye.
"How should I live without Shimin?" Yang Rui looked up to the sky and sighed.
Changsun Wuji on the side was stunned and thought to himself: Don’t you still have me?
Li Xiuning took her son Yang Cong to say goodbye to everyone and returned to the palace. Yang Cong was only five years old today and could not play with them.
"Let's go and have a look at Wuji's new home." Yang Jin pulled the two of them back and started to go back. Jiancheng followed behind him. After sending people to Gao Shilian's house, he returned to the Ministry of Etiquette. went.
Changsun Wuji and the others have now moved into the home of their uncle Gao Shilian. I have to say that this uncle is really good at his job.
The Wuji brothers and sisters can do whatever they want in the house, just like at home, without restraint.
Generally speaking, a married daughter throws away water, and the younger sister is not doing well. As an elder brother, he can help if he can, but those like Gao Shilian who directly support him are in the minority after all.
Of course, there is another reason: Gao Shilian's mother is still alive.
The arrival of Yang Rui and the others naturally brought glory to the Gao Mansion, and Gao Shilian and his family entertained them wholeheartedly.
His daughter-in-law is from the Xianyu family, a Tiele people who moved to Dingxian, Hebei, Central Plains during the Northern Wei Dynasty. They are a branch of the Huns and have basically integrated into the Han nationality.
Gao Shilian was originally from the royal family of the old Qi Dynasty. He had no choice but to marry the daughter of a wealthy family because his country was ruined and his family was destroyed. However, his wife was really a good wife. Her old mother relied on others to support her. She was frugal in running the house, taking care of her husband and raising her children. Gotta pick.
It is such a good daughter-in-law who tolerates her husband's sister's family living in her and treats her as a complete family.
Changsun Wuji felt closer to his aunt than to his biological uncle.
"Are there any plums?" Yang Jin looked at the food on the table and asked directly.
Gao Shilian was stunned and said embarrassedly: "I don't have it at home. Your Highness will wait a moment, and I will go buy some for you."
Then, Gao Shilian called his eldest son Gao Jiuxing and asked him to get some money from the treasury and go out to buy plums.
"If you want Jiaqing green plums, they are sold in the East Market," Yang Jin reminded.
Don't think that Yang Jin is rude. In fact, his character is to follow his mother's will. If he says anything, he won't be vain. If I want to eat plums, I will just say it. I won't beat around the bush with you.
Since Yang Rui entered the mansion, he has been looking at the scene inside the mansion. At this moment, he frowned and said:
"I see that your family is quite poor. The governor of Honglu Temple is from the sixth rank, right? Is his salary very small?"
Gao Shilian smiled and said: "It's actually quite a lot. The monthly salary is two thousand yuan, food is three hundred dan, miscellaneous expenses are four hundred yuan, and at the end of the year, there is still one hundred yuan of rice."
Lumi at the end of the year almost means year-end bonus.
The salaries of officials in ancient China have never been high, so corruption was commonplace. It was okay in the Song Dynasty, but there was a period of high salaries to support integrity, but the effect was not ideal. The Ming Dynasty was the worst, and officials could not pay their salaries.
The Sui Dynasty was considered high, but Gao Shilian's monthly salary was definitely not enough. After all, the family supported so many people, so he must find a way to make money.
It's actually very simple. What does Honglu Temple care about? Receiving foreign guests, Taoist temples across the country, guests, good and bad rites, these three areas are very rich.
For example, Chen Shuming is the young minister of Honglu Temple. This year he presided over two high-level funerals for Liang Bi and Changsun Chi. The imperial court allocates funeral expenses, part of which is Honglu Temple flowers, which are responsible for funeral preparations. As long as you spend If you have money, you can make money.
Gao Shilian went to Bashu with Liu Su, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, to build temples and buy and sell monks' membership. He made a lot of money, but he did not dare to spend it because the money would never see the light of day.
Everyone knows that he is very poor. If he renovates his mansion all at once, the people at Yushitai will ask, where did you get the money? Can't answer? Let's go, let's go to the Criminal Department.
So now Gao Shilian is rich, but everything in his family looks shabby.
Yang Rui looked at Yang Jin and asked, "Do we have any monthly salary?"
"No, right? Aren't all our expenses belong to the father?" Yang Jin said.
Gao Shilian was stunned, I don't dare to accept this. You two are princes, and the princes are genuine. How can you not have a salary?
But Wei Gui didn't think so much and said directly: "You two have a living, so you don't need to care about the salary at all."
"So, I should also have a salary?" Yang Rui asked.
Wei Gui nodded: "My grandpa is the Duke of Xun Guo. This is the first rank, with a monthly salary of 8,000 yuan, food of 1,800 shi, miscellaneous expenses of 1,200 yuan, and rice of 600 shi. Although you two are regular First grade, but according to our Sui Dynasty system, the monthly salary is the same as first grade."
"When you hear it, it really isn't much?" Yang Jin roughly calculated.
If the two of them were county princes, they would have actual fiefdoms, but when they became princes, they no longer had it, but they had many fiefdoms.
The prince's fiefdom is 10,000 households, which is calculated by households, not by dings, and the tax paid by the Sui Dynasty is calculated by dings, so the taxes paid by the two of them for their fiefdoms are constantly changing every year.
Calculated in dings, one ding pays 500 kilograms of grain a year. Ten thousand dings is five million kilograms. According to current weights and measures, it is approximately equal to 140,000 kilograms of grain. If calculated per household, it is about 200,000 to 30,000 kilograms. Between one hundred thousand.
Their salaries are indeed nothing compared to their food and property.
However, since the Sui Dynasty, there have been two types of weights and measures. Yang Jian's large system of weights and measures was almost used until the Qing Dynasty. However, after Yang Guang's reform, he returned to the ancient system and became a small system of weights and measures. This small system of weights and measures was no longer used in the Tang Dynasty. , and used Yang Jian’s one again.
The large system of weights and measures was started by Yang Jian. In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Gu Yanwu called this: Over the past three generations, the system of weight and weight has changed since Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty.
The three dynasties are Xia, Shang and Zhou.
Therefore, according to the mainstream Chinese standards of weights and measures, the total amount of food Yang Rui eats every year is between 70,000 and 80,000 to 100,000 shi. This does not sound so exaggerated.
After all, one stone in Yang Jian's time was 120 kilograms, but now it is only 35 kilograms.
"Have you seen the taxes we pay for our food?" Yang Rui asked.
Yang Jin asked, "Have you seen it?"
Yang Rui shook his head, and Yang Jin also shook his head.
Wei Gui's eyebrows twitched, knowing that he had said the wrong thing, so he quickly made up for it:
"Because you two are not adults yet."
Yang Rui frowned and said, "Not necessarily. When I was the King of Hedong, I knew that Hedong County paid taxes to me. Although I haven't seen it, it doesn't matter when I become a prince?"
"Don't think about it," Yang Jin said directly: "My grandpa will spend it on you."
Yang Rui was stunned and said quickly: "You can't say that. Without my grandfather, how would we get the title? So that money belongs to my grandfather."
"Well," Yang Jin nodded: "You are better at talking than me, that's why." (End of Chapter)
